From jmkdparks@email.msn.com Mon Jan 11 09:45:26 1999 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:26:15 -0400 From: Jeff & Katrina Parks To: Jenni Parks , James C. Parks , Jerry Parks Subject: Fw: The new liberal > >> Subject: FW: The new liberal >> >> Subject: The Ant & The Grasshopper (for those of you who love the >> politically correct fairy tales...) >> >> The Original Version... >> >> The ant busts his ass in the withering heat all summer long, building his >> house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a >> fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter the ant >> is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies >> out in the cold. >> >> The New Liberal Version... >> >> It starts out the same but when winter comes the shivering grasshopper >> calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed >> to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and >> ABC show up and show pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to film of >> the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. >> >> America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be, in a country of >> such wealth that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Then a >> representative of the NAAGB >> (The National Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Night Line and >> charges the ant with "Green Bias" and makes the case that the grasshopper >> is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. >> >> Kermit the frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries >> when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." >> >> Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS >> evening news and tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything >> they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he >> deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the summer, or as Bill >> refers to it, the "Intemperance Of The 80's". Finally the EEOC >> drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act" RETRO-ACTIVE to the >> beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a >> proportionate number of green bugs and having nothing left to pay his >> Retro-Active taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. >> >> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the >> ant's food while the government house he's in....which just happens to be >> the ant's old house.... >> crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has >> disappeared in the snow. And on the TV; which the grasshopper bought by >> selling most of the ant's food, Bill Clinton is standing before a wildly >> applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "Fairness" has >> dawned in America. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >